New Approaches and Markers for Identifying Secondary Biogenic Coalbed Gas

Acta Geologica Sinica - Tập 86 Số 1 - Trang 199-208 - 2012
Mingxin Tao1, Li Jing1, Xiaobin Li1,2, Yuzhen Ma1, Zhongping Li2, Zuodong Wang2, Gao Zhongliang1, Zhang Xiao-jun2, Yanlong Wang3
1College of Resource Science and Technology/ Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
2Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources Research, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
3Xi'an Branch, China Coal Research Institute, Xi'an 710054, China

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Abstract:According to the adsorption‐desorption characteristics of coalbed gas and analysis of various experimental data, this paper proposes that the generation of secondary biogenic gas (SBG) and its mixing of with the residual thermogenic gas at an early stage inevitably lead to secondary changes of the thermogenic gas and various geochemical additive effects. Experimental results also show that the fractionation of the carbon isotope of methane of coal core desorption gas changes very little; the δ13C1 value of the mixed gas of biogenic and thermogenic gases is between the δ13C1 values of the two “original” gases, and the value is determined by the carbon isotopic compositions and mixing proportions of the two “original” methanes. Therefore this paper proposes that the study on the secondary changes of the thermogenic gas and various additive effects is a new effective way to study and identify SBG. Herein, a systematic example of research on the coalbed gas (Huainan coalbed gas) is further conducted, revealing a series of secondary changes and additive effects, the main characteristics and markers of which are: (1) the contents of CO2 and heavy‐hydrocarbons decrease significantly; (2) the content of CH4 increases and the gas becomes drier; (3) the δ13C and δD values of methane decrease significantly and tend to have biogenetic characteristics; and (4) the values of δ13C2 and δ13Cco2 grow higher. These isotopic values also change with the degradation degrees by microbes and mixing proportions of the two kinds of gases in different locations. There exists a negative correlation between the δ13C1vsδ13Cco2 values. The Δδ13Cc2–c1 values obviously become higher. The distributions of the Δδ13Cco2–c1 values are within certain limits and show regularity. There exist a positive correlation between the N2 versus Ar contents, and a negative correlation between the N2 versus CH4 contents, indicating the down forward infiltration of the surface water containing air. These are important markers of the generation and existence of SBG.

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Acta Geologica Sinica

Tập 86 Số 1

199-208

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